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For Islamabad, the liberation of Kashmir is a sacred mission, the only task unfulfilled since Muhammad Ali
Jinnah's days. Moreover, a crisis in Kashmir constitutes an excellent outlet for the frustration at home, an
instrument for the mobilization of the masses, as well as gaining the support of the Islamist parties and
primarily their loyalists in the military and the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).
The ISI has a major interest to continue the crisis. Back in the 1970s, Pakistan started to train Sikhs and
other Indian separatist movements as part of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's strategy for forward strategic depth.
Pakistan adopted the sponsorship of terrorism and subversion as an instrument to substitute for
the lack of strategic depth and early warning capabilities. The Pakistani sponsored terrorists and the
Pakistani intelligence operatives in their ranks would be able to warn Pakistan of any impending Indian
invasion, and then launch guerrilla warfare against the Indian Army even before it reached the border
with Pakistan. Therefore, sponsoring separatist subversion has become a crucial component of
Islamabad's national military strategy.
The following articles will provide you with an in-depth analysis of Pakistan's involvement in instigating
and supporting terrorism in Kashmir by establishing various training centers for providing arms training to
many Kashmiri Muslim youths who are lured out of their homes in Kashmir to cross over the border - all
in the name of religion for fighting a Jehad (holy war) against Infidel India.
Weapons Seized
"...There are credible reports of official Pakistan support for militants fighting in Kashmir..."
-U.S. State Department report "Patterns of Global Terrorism" 1995.
- Mr. Jack Cunningham, Foreign Secretary of the Shadow Cabinet, Labour Party, U.K., in a
press briefing on March 25, 1994.
"In Kashmir Valley an insurgency is going on. But it is not by the local community. There is a lot of
evidence to suggest the insurgency is organised, assisted and triggered by forces outside India. I
mention here Pakistan, which is conducting training camps.... I also met four captured militants: one
Afghan, one Palestinian and other Pakistanis. They admitted that they fought in Afghanistan and Kashmir
at the behest of Pakistan. A large cache of arms made in different countries and seized from the militants
were shown to me. We want to cut off support to insurgency whatever the source.
The following are extracts from two reports "Pakistan's Kashmir Strategy" a report of the
Freeman Centre for Strategic studies, and "The New Islamic International" a report of the
Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the House Republican Research
Committee U.S. house of representatives, Washington D.C.
....Meanwhile the ISI continues to provide the terrorists with new weapons. In the summer of 1993, the
Kashmiri Mujahideen were provided with long range and powerful missiles - Saqr missiles of Afghan war
vintage. At that time, the Kashmiri and ISI crews were being trained in the use of these missiles in
Pakistani Kashmir.
Subsequently there has been a marked expansion of smuggling of quality weapons from Pakistan in to
Kashmir as of late 1993. There has been a corresponding change in the terrorists' tactics, introducing hit
and run strikes by highly trained and well equipped detachments. Among the new weapons now used in
Kashmir are 107mm rockets, 60mm mortars, automatic grenade launchers (Soviet and Chinese models),
modification of 57 mm helicopter rocket pods with solar powered sophisticated timing device for delayed
firing barrages of rockets, and LAW-type tube-launched ATMs (Soviet and Chinese models). A threshold
was crossed in the spring of 1994 when the ISI began providing the Kashmiri Islamists with Stinger
SAMs. Indian security forces captured a stinger on 30 April 1994.....
Extract from the Freeman Centre for Strategic Studies, Pakistan Kashmir and the Trans-
Asian axis, two research papers by Yossef Bodansky, Summer 1995.
....Islamabad also uses the escalation in Kashmir as a cover for the overall expansion of the terrorist
training and support for operations in Central Asia and elsewhere in the world. In order to escalate their
Islamist Jihad, the ISI established in early 1990s, the Markaz Dawar, a centre for world wide Islamist
activities.....
"The support of secessionist terrorism has become an integral part of Pakistan diplomacy."
-Yossef Bodansky
Extracts from two reports "Pakistan's Kashmir Strategy" a report of the Freeman Centre for
Strategic studies, and "The New Islamic International" a report of the Task Force on
Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare,of the House of Republican Research Committee, U.S.
House of representatives, Washington D.C.
....For Islamabad the liberation of Kashmir is a sacred mission, the only task unfulfilled since Muhammed
Ali Jinnah's days.
Islamabad desperately needs an external challenge for its own domestic political reasons, ranging from
diversion of popular attention away from the domestic collapse to finding "something to do " for the
ISI and the military rather than meddling in politics."
Meanwhile, the ISI translated its major paramilitary command into a major political force. Now there is a
need for a mission use for the ISI's numerous para-military and Afghan forces, as well as an institutional
interest in preserving the political clout that comes with these operations. Islamabad finds a task for
the ISI's vast Pakistani and Afghan cadres previously involved in sponsoring the Jihad in
Afghanistan, but who are now no longer needed, that would keep them away from domestic politics and
power struggles.
In early June 1994, Commander Manzur Shah declared that the sole objective of the escalating Jihad in
Kashmir is to incorporate it into Pakistan. He admitted that Indian Kashmiri Muslim leaders were
assassinated or attacked in order to prevent them from reaching an agreement with the Indian
government. " Wali Mohammed would not have been assassinated and the caravans of Farooq (Abdullah)
and Rajesh Pilot would not have been attacked if the climate was conducive to political action"
Meanwhile, a campaign of assassinations was launched in order to eliminate the Kashmiri civic leadership
that opposed the escalation of the Jihad. On June 20 1994, Islamist terrorists assassinated the Kashmiri
Scholar Qazi Nissar Ahmed. He was kidnapped a night before and pressured to endorse the anti-India
Jihad. He refused and was killed. A key member of the assassination was Fayaz Ahmad Mir a.k.a. Abu
Bakr of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen. Ahmed was the 17th Kashmiri Muslim Scholar to be assassinated by Islamists
for refusing to join the anti-India struggle.
The strategic logic of using the nuclear factor to offset any deficiencies in conventional military power has
been the cornerstone of Pakistan's nuclear strategy. Recently a more assertive element was first
introduced to the nuclear strategy by Islamist politicians. The overall Pakistani strategic confidence has
been expressed in brinkmanship statements coming out of Islamabad since the fall of 1993. For example,
Qazi Hussain Ahmad, the Jamaat-i-Islami Chief Senator, urged the Bhutto government "to declare Jihad
on India to save Kashmiri Muslims from total annihilation. " There is no other way to resolve the crisis he
declared. "Let us wage Jihad for Kashmir. A nuclear armed Pakistan would deter India from a wider
conflict." he stressed. Thus the statement of mid February confirms that the Bhutto government has
indeed adopted the strategy and policy outlined by the Islamists.
As the spring of 1995 draws near and the weather improves, the ISI is about to unleash a new cycle of
terrorism and subversion. Considering the extent of the training, preparations and organizational effort
invested in the Kashmiri Islamist insurgency during the last few years, it is safe to assume that fighting in
Kashmir will escalate markedly in the coming year. Numerous additional highly trained and well equipped
Mujahideen, many of them professional specialist forces and terrorists, will join the fighting in Kashmir
and will even expand the struggle into the rest of India. They already have in place extensive stockpiles
of weapons as well as large sums of money to sustain and support their Jihad. Their primary mission,
however, will not be for the liberation of Kashmir but rather furthering the strategic interests of
Islamabad.....
Islami
Mir Hamza r/o Khambal Chowk,
POK Inqalabi 6/7.2.93
Mirpur, POK
Mahaz
Vijaypur,
Mohd. Sher Ali Pakistani - 20.8.93
Jammu
Afghanistan.
Galuti,
Sajjad Sajid s/o Abdul Rehman
Pakistani HuM Majkot 30.11.95
Chak, Rawalkot, Poonch, POK
Rajouri
Shaheed Mehmood Mughal alias Abu Darda alias Hamid alias Bhola,
s/o Ali Afsar Mugal,
r/o Bangni, Rawalkot,
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. LET ( arrested on 3.9. 95 )
Volunteered to participate in 'jehad' in Kashmir. He received 21 days initial training in
fire arms at Maskar-e-Taiba camp, Kunnah, Afghanistan and then 3 months
commando training course near Nissar Pakistan Army camp on Muzaffarabad-
Athmuqam Road. He was inducted into the Kashmir Valley in May 94 with group of a
25 Lashkar-E-Taiba cadres.
Infiltrated into the Kashmir Valley in Sept. 1994 in a group of 15. Toured different cities, including Delhi,
Calcutta, Deoband, Muzaffarpur, Agra, Meerut, Shimla during Nov. 1996 - Jan. 1997. He revealed that
Pakistan had a plan to induct Talibans in the Valley. Admitted to have been responsible for the explosions
in a Jaipur Stadium on "Republic Day" ( Jan./Feb 1996). Imparted training at Khalidbin Walid training
camp, Jawar-Pakhia (Afghanistan).
The Evidence
Harkat-Ul-Ansar (HUA) & Lashkar-E-Taiba (LET), which the USA has identified as mercenary
organisations based in Pakistan, provide proof of their cadres who have been sent to
destabilise India. A sample selection of the mercenaries of Harkat-Ul-Ansar (HUA) &
Lashkar-E-Taiba (LET) who were sent from Pakistan to perpetrate terrorism in Jammu &
Kashmir.
PAKISTAN
**The US State Department lists the following countries as state-sponsors of terrorism, but as not being
active sponsors of terrorism in 1997: Syria, Cuba, North Korea, and Libya. They are presumably listed for
previous acts of terrorism, for non-compliance with international resolutions, or for harboring terrorist
groups. The Pakistani data is derived from an average of over 2,000 deaths in the state of Jammu and
Kashmir during the last several years in violence by Pakistani-supported terrorists.
**The data are incomplete for other countries listed in the US State Department bulletin. As and when
data is available in the future, this graph will be updated.
**The red dots show the location of some of the well-documented terrorist camps operating in Pakistan
and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir
**The sole red dot in Afghanistan depicts the location of terrorist camps housing Pakistani trainees
targeted by US missiles
Some Vital Statistics and Facts on the Pakistani Terrorist Machinery Aimed at Kashmir
• Number of Terrorist Camps in Pakistan: 37
• Number of Terrorist Camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir: 49
• Number of Pakistani-run Terrorist Camps in Afghanistan: 22
• Total Number of Hardcore Terrorists Operating in Jammu and Kashmir: 2300
• Total Number of Foreign Mercenaries Operating in Jammu and Kashmir: 900
• Number of Pakistani terrorists killed by Indian security forces: 291
• Number of Pakistani terrorists in Indian jails: 125
• Number of Indian civilians killed by Pakistani terrorists: over 29,000